Dialectical Journal For Secret Life Of Bees
Secret Life of Bees Book Journal
Chapter 1
Lily Owens is lying in her bed watching bees squeeze in and out of cracks in her walls. She thinks about her mother, who died when Lily was a child. She also thinks about Rosaleen, a black woman who looks after her and her father, T. Ray. When the bees begin to swarm around Lily, she wakes T. Ray to show him but when he comes, the bees are gone. He threatens to make her kneel in grits if she wakes him again. Lily decides she will catch some bees in a jar to prove she was not making up the story. She starts to think about the day her mother died. She was packing hurridly when T. Ray comes home and they start fighting. Lily there was a gun, picking it up, and an explosion.
Lily and T. Ray live on a peach farm. He doesn’t let her do average ‘kid’ stuff. Lily has to make her own crappy clothes and is not popular at school. Lily starts catching bees in the jar, even though Rosaleen tells her that she is not going to care if Lily comes crying to her about getting stung. Lily thinks about the time Rosaleen bought her a baby chick and argued with T. Ray to let …show more content…
August couldn’t get a job teaching so she became a housekeeper. Nine years later she found a job teaching history, which she kept until she moved to Tiburon. June would not keep house for white people, so she did hair at a funeral home. Lily asks if August was ever in love. August says she was, but she did not get married because she loved her freedom more than she loved the man. As they are doing bee patrol, Lily asks August why she painted her house pink. August says that May loved it. August shows her the bees when they’re cooling the hives. Lily asks what other secrets the bees have. August explains what the bees do in the hives. As bees swarm around Lily, August tells her to send them love and they will not bother her. Lily becomes lost in the bees and in her thoughts. August tells Lily they are due for a long
Chapter 1
Lily Owens is lying in her bed watching bees squeeze in and out of cracks in her walls. She thinks about her mother, who died when Lily was a child. She also thinks about Rosaleen, a black woman who looks after her and her father, T. Ray. When the bees begin to swarm around Lily, she wakes T. Ray to show him but when he comes, the bees are gone. He threatens to make her kneel in grits if she wakes him again. Lily decides she will catch some bees in a jar to prove she was not making up the story. She starts to think about the day her mother died. She was packing hurridly when T. Ray comes home and they start fighting. Lily there was a gun, picking it up, and an explosion.
Lily and T. Ray live on a peach farm. He doesn’t let her do average ‘kid’ stuff. Lily has to make her own crappy clothes and is not popular at school. Lily starts catching bees in the jar, even though Rosaleen tells her that she is not going to care if Lily comes crying to her about getting stung. Lily thinks about the time Rosaleen bought her a baby chick and argued with T. Ray to let …show more content…
August couldn’t get a job teaching so she became a housekeeper. Nine years later she found a job teaching history, which she kept until she moved to Tiburon. June would not keep house for white people, so she did hair at a funeral home. Lily asks if August was ever in love. August says she was, but she did not get married because she loved her freedom more than she loved the man. As they are doing bee patrol, Lily asks August why she painted her house pink. August says that May loved it. August shows her the bees when they’re cooling the hives. Lily asks what other secrets the bees have. August explains what the bees do in the hives. As bees swarm around Lily, August tells her to send them love and they will not bother her. Lily becomes lost in the bees and in her thoughts. August tells Lily they are due for a long